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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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“We've been very pleased with TVA's response to dealing with its nitrogen oxide pollution, which is a real threat to the Smokies and to public health. But we remain very concerned about TVA's efforts in addressing particulate matter and sulfur pollutants.”
“We welcome the review of these plants because we don't want Tennessee's environment and water to be sacrificed to make electricity for other parts of the country. But unfortunately, there are not a lot of details or specifics in this report.”
“We fully believe that comprehensive legislation is the real solution”
“We think it's unfortunate that the administration may unilaterally dismiss bringing these old plants under new standards. It's bad for public health, and it's bad for air quality.”
“The long-term answer to this is Green Power. Green Power is clean, renewable energy – energy you can feel good about that doesn't have these air-polluting problems.”
“We've been very pleased with TVA's response to dealing with its nitrogen oxide pollution, which is a real threat to the Smokies and to public health. But we remain very concerned about TVA's efforts in addressing particulate matter and sulfur pollutants.”
“The nuclear folks really love to say, 'Well, once we get these up and running and once we get the bugs out the cost will drop,' but these plants only run for a certain period of time. I don't see nuclear playing a significant role. I think it is a dead end for the administration to be heading down.”
“It's just one of the consequences of choosing nuclear power as an option, that you will have nuclear waste piling up on the banks of the Tennessee River”
“I would be very much opposed to shutting down the nuclear power plants”
A Pensacola homebuilder and environmental activist, Michael O'Donovan, participated in a Clean Air rally at the Lincoln Memorial to protest pollution from coal-burning power plants, particularly Gulf Power's Crist plant, which he believes aggravates his daughter's…
“The North Alabama and lower Tennessee region wouldn't need another nuclear plant if TVA did a better job of promoting energy conservation”
The TVA is suing the EPA to block a multibillion-dollar clean-air enforcement action that requires the agency and private utilities to install pollution controls on 51 aging coal-fired power plants modified in the 1980s and 1990s.…
“That's a big difference”
“We're just glad we got somebody in office willing to be a stopgap for that kind of agenda”
“Georgia Power added insult to injury because the landfill gas didn't even meet the minimum emission standards they'd agreed to”
